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UAVs for Smart Cities: Opportunities and Challenges
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Understanding the term ‘Smart City’ is not completely carved in stone as there are only limited number of studies that investigated this topic. However, with increasing advances in technology, information systems and
communications, one can identify several important core components that are required to fully understand and define the concept of a smart city.
There are eight core factors that influence smart city initiatives. These are:
- Management and organization: the alignment of management and organizational goals is a necessity for smart city to work effectively and efficiently.
- Technology: a smart city relies on a collection of smart computing technologies applied to critical infrastructure components and services. Smart computing refers to a new generation of integrated hardware, software and network technologies that provide IT systems with real time awareness of the real world and advanced analytics to help people make more intelligent decisions.
- Governance: it involves the implementation of processes with constituents who exchange information according to rules and standards in order to achieve goals and objectives. Several factors like collaboration, communication, leadership, and dataexchange are required for effective smart city governance.
- Policy-context: the policy context is critical to the understanding of the use of information systems in appropriate ways. It mainly characterizes institutional and non-technical urban issues and creates conditions that enable urban development.
- People and communities: smart city initiatives allow members of the city to participate in the governance and management of the city and become active participants. If they are key players they may have the opportunity to engage with the initiative to the extent that they can influence its success or failure.
- Economy: it is one of the major drivers of smart city initiatives and a city with a high degree of economic competitiveness is thought to have one of the properties of a smart city. The outcomes are mostly business creation, job creation, workforce development, and improvement in productivity.
- ICT infrastructure: the implementation of an ICT infrastructure is fundamental to a smart city’s development and depends on some factors related to its availability and performance.
- Natural environment: one of the core goals of a smart city is to increase sustainability and to enhance natural resource management. In addition, the protection of natural resources and related infrastructure is extremely important.
